photography

National Cycle Network Mileposts

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Milepost (2)

In 2000, a series of 1000 mileposts were erected at various spots on the routes forming the National Cycle Network as part of a Millennium project. As a photographer who walks a lot, I often pass these, and usually take pictures of them. I’ve now amassed a collection of 10, showing 3 of the 4 different types of posts.

They’re all in Yorkshire as that’s where I tend to do most of my walking but there are plenty more elsewhere – these pictures only show 1% of all the mileposts erected.

Though they are mostly the same design, it’s interesting to see how they have each been painted, or otherwise.

Edinburgh at Night

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Edinburgh Castle

Yesterday I had a job interview with the University of Edinburgh, and due to Edinburgh being somewhat distant from Bradford I travelled up the day before and stayed the night. This gave me ample opportunity to play around with my new camera. Hence, I bring you various night-time shots of places and buildings in Edinburgh.

I was surprised at how few buildings in the city were illuminated at night – the Scott Monument on Princes’ Street being one of the more notable structures that were shrouded in darkness. Still, I managed to get a reasonable set of pictures, although I actually took many more which ended up being deleted for blurriness (next time, must remember tripod) or lack of light.

Also, here’s a daytime shot of where I may be working if I get the job. This picture is also notable for being the 1500th image that I’ve uploaded to Flickr.

Good things come to those who wait

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PICT1418

It’s taken me almost two weeks but my photos from Edinburgh are finally up. Not all of them are very well annotated or tagged though since I’ve not really had an awful lot of time lately nor been near enough to an internet connection.

I also have photos taken at Diggerland from last Saturday as well as some from central Durham which we popped into on the way back since we had some time and it was a nice day.

A few weekends ago I also went out and took some photos around Little Horton Green, a road in Bradford that seems to have got stuck in an 18th century time-warp. It’s really nice down there, actually.

I’m now only 155 images away from my 1000th photo on Flickr – not bad for less than a year.